A row has broken out over a deal which will see NHS surgeons carrying out operations in a private hospital.
It covers all non-urgent orthopaedic surgery at Derriford Hospital, part of University Hospitals Plymouth Trust.
A spokesperson for the trust said it was an “innovative” and “pioneering” partnership which would reduce waiting times for patients.
But Labour said it looked like “front door privatisation.”
The deal, over a period of a year-and-a-half and involving about 200 cases a month, is said to be the first of its kind between an NHS trust and a private provider.
Full story in BBC News, 26 October 2018
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